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News & Politics, Feature Mar 4, 2020
Capital of the midwest

Is Chicago an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness?
- By Pete Saunders
- Tags: Feature, Midwest, Midwestern, rust belt sun belt, manhattan, cosmopolitan, los angeles, San Francisco, farmland, industry

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2017
Video
Congressman Luis Gutierrez wants the military to help storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, and other Chicago news

Also, more than 1,000 people turned out for Kenneka Jenkins's funeral.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Luis Gutierrez, FEMA, Puerto Rico, James Meeks, Kenneka Jenkins, House of Hope, San Francisco, New York City, Manhattan, cost of living, Amazon, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Boykin, Cook County Board, Toni Preckwinkle, soda tax, pop tax, Katsu, Katsu Imamura, restaurant closings, Video

Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 21, 2016
Recommended
Before #BlackLivesMatter, there was Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison

Two lost photo essays, now on display at the Art Institute, go beyond racial stereotypes to reveal the real life of Harlem.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Art Review, Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Harlem New York, New York City, Manhattan, Art Institute of Chicago, "Harlem Is Nowhere", "A Man Becomes Invisible", Life magazine, racism, '48: The Magazine of the Year, photography, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
Video
Temperance Beer Company goes big with its first bottles

Saturday at its tap room, Temperance releases two barrel-aged versions of Might Meets Right imperial stout.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Temperance Beer Company, Temperance, Evanston, Might Meets Right, Gatecrasher, Evenfall, Escapist, Restless Years, Root Down, High West, manhattan, Boulevardier, FOBAB, Hopleaf, Super Stout Sunday, Bourbon County, Spiteful, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2014
Chicago's own One World Trade Center is all but forgotten

A plaque on the Merchandise Mart is a vestige of a failed campaign to renname one of Chicago's most iconic buildings.
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: What the Hell Is This Place?, You Are Here, New York City, 9/11 terrorist attack, One World Trade Center, Condé Nast, Manhattan, Merchandise Mart, One World Trade Center Chicago, Joseph Hakim, Merchandise Mart Properties, Oak Brook, McHenry, Vornado, Bill Lada, Illinois World Trade Center Association, Neil Hartigan

Film, Movie Review Aug 6, 2014
Recommended
Jonathan Demme directs a screen version of Ibsen's The Master Builder

Chicago native Lisa Joyce contributes a scene-stealing performance and appears at selected screenings.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, A Master Builder, Jonathan Demme, Melvin and Howard, Stop Making Sense, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, Manhattan, The Princess Bride, Toy Story, Andre Gregory, My Dinner With Andre, Vanya on 42nd Street, Gene Siskel Film Center, Depaul Univeristy, Boardwalk Empire, HBO, Jeff Biehl, Emily Cass McDonnell, Julie Hagerty, Huffington Post, Wizard of Oz, Ibsen, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 14, 2014
Recommended
Saul Steinberg: Art-world outcast?

If you can find the Art Institute's exhibit on the celebrated cartoonist, you're in for a treat.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Art Review, Saul Steinberg: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, Art Institute of Chicago, Saul Steinberg, the New Yorker, Manhattan, Prints and Drawings Gallery, Saul Steinberg Foundation, Birds, New York Moonlight, Krazy Kat, Certified Landscape, Abraham Lincoln, Untitled (Las Vegas), Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 24, 2014
Steppenwolf's This Is Our Youth meets The Mummy

In Anna D. Shapiro's production, Kenneth Lonergan's ugly-sweet play has affinities with an old black-and-white movie.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, This Is Our Youth, Steppenwolf Theatre, Manhattan, Upper West Side, Boris Karloff, Anna D. Shapiro, The Mummy, Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Tavi Gevinson

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2014
Manhattan, 12 Monkeys and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, 12 Monkeys, Walking and Talking, The Witnesses, Manhattan, Eyes Without a Face, Orphans of the Storm, The Life of Oharu

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 9, 2014
Don't stop at 'transgendered'

"Trans" is owed a man, woman, or person. Plus: Relationship woes minus the actual relationship.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, transgendered, genderqueer, agender, Shadi Petosky, PUNY Entertainment, Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters for America, Fox News, Manhattan, unrequited love

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 6, 2013
Recommended
But is The Normal Heart good?

TimeLine Theatre gets an important play pumping.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, AIDS, Larry Kramer, Centers for Disease Control, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Manhattan, President Reagan, New York, Ed Koch, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, The Normal Heart, Pat Buchanan, Public Theater, William Hoffman, As Is, Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Denis O'Hare, Finn Wittrock, Chris Sullivan, TimeLine Theatre, agit-prop, New York Times, Don Shewey, Emma Brookner, Linda Laubenstein, Stephen Rader, Bertolt Brecht, David Cromer, Nick Bowling, Brian Sidney Bembridge, Michael Stanfill, Mary Beth Fisher, Mark Grapey, Alex Weisman, Patrick Andrews, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 19, 2013
Cathleen Schine's flower children

The protagonists of her ninth novel, Fin & Lady, wander 1960s New York.
- By Hannah Gold
- Tags: Book Review, Just Kids, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cathleen Schine, The Love Letter, The New Yorkers, Manhattan, Fin & Lady, Pomfret, Connecticut, Greenwich Village, Chinese food, Empire State Building, Pete Seeger, feminism, Times, Flannery O'Connor, Ian Fleming, Margaret Sanger, Scarlett O'Hara

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 21, 2013
Shakespeare goes to Gotham City

Robert Falls achieves a half measure of success in dark, unruly Measure for Measure.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Goodman Theatre, Measure for Measure, Shakespeare, Robert Falls, New York City, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Daytona Beach, Hamlet, Manhattan, Gotham City, Donna Summer, Love to Love You Baby, Sweeney Todd

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2013
Off Color Brewing's "Mischief" pop-up bar: You will want to drink all their beer

Off Color Brewing debuts with four tasty collaborations: a pink pilsner, a smoked bock, a half bock, and a potent French-Belgian chimera.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Off Color Brewing, Mischief, Black Rock Pub, Dave Bleitner, John Laffler, Metropolitan, Three Floyds, Haymarket, Doug Hurst, gose, kottbusser, Tonnerre Neige, half bock, smoked bock, pink pilsner, dinosmores, bee's knees, Manhattan, Jens Kidman, Meshuggah, Local Option, Xlerator

Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2012
Make mine a manhattan

There's no finer cocktail than a well-crafted manhattan
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Blotto, Hangover Week, Steve Bogira, manhattan, cocktails, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2012
Make mine a manhattan

I love a good manhattan.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Blotto, One Sip, Things I Love, manhattan, manhattan cocktail, Steve Boira, Chicago Tribune, Hangover Week, Steve Bogira

Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2012
Make mine a manhattan

The perfect cocktail: a manhattan
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Blotto, Things I Love, manhattan, manhattan cocktail

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2012
Video
Filmmaker Sean Dunne and his Vimeo catalog—juggalos included

In his Vimeo-specific documentaries, filmmaker Sean Dunne profiles a gaggle of juggalos, a record archivist, a bowling hustler, and a man living in his van in Manhattan.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Film, Sean Dunne, American Juggalo, Vimeo, documentary, Man in Van, Manhattan, film, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2012
The past week on the Bleader

Some highlights from the past week on the Bleader
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Behind Our Scenes, alderman week, Mick Dumke, Ben Joravsky, Kate Schmidt, Steve Bogira, Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Kevin Warwick, Logan Square, ethnic 78s, Claire Chase, Chief Keef, Mike Sula, pickled garlic, manhattan, doughnuts

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2012
Take a Sip: Alex Bachman's Three Arrows

The Yusho barkeep's manhattan is like breakfast cereal with dried cranberries . . . on the Kyber Pass
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Alex Bachman, Yusho, Matthias Merges, Charlie Trotter's, Three Arrows, Whippersnapper Whiskey, Ransom Spirits, House of Glunz, Christopher Donovan, cocktails, manhattan, Barolo Chinato, white dog

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2011
Bonus payouts at newspapers, and what they might say about the Occupy protests

What executive corruption at newspapers reveals about the Occupy protests.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Media, Politics, News, Clout City, New York Times, David Carr, USA Today, Tribune Company, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street, Manhattan, financial district, Gannett, Craig A. Dubow, financial crisis, corporate corruption

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Sour cherry cocktails, popcorn beer, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Adam Seger, sour cherries, Nacional 27, Caipirinha, Manhattan, Barry Callebaut, Chocolate Academy, frozen desserts, Amanda Snouffer, Rock Bottom Brewery, POP! Popcorn Malt Liquor, Davin Bartosh, POP! Fest, Goose Island, Metropolitan Brewing, Belmont Arts and Music Festival, BAM!, burgers, Roscoe Village Burger Fest, The Bad Apple, The Village Tap, Goose Island Brewpub, Gin Blossoms, 10, 000 Maniacs, Stone Brewing Co., The Publican, beer dinner, Rogers Park, Glenwood Sunday Market, Market for All Fundraiser, Morseland, Northalsted, Halsted Tastes Better, Ann Sather, HB Home Bistro, Chicago Diner, Waitperson's Race, Rick Tramonto, Steak with Friends, Borders

Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2009
9/29 — Free Cocktail Classes at the Hard Rock Hotel

9/29 -- Free cocktail-mixing class and tasting at the Hard Rock Hotel.
- By Alex Yablon
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Free, Hard Rock Hotel, Templeton Rye, Manhattan, Rye whiskey

Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2009
SOM's William Baker wins prestigous structural engineering award
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Architecture, Bloomingdale Trail, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, High Line park, Manhattan, William Baker, Bill Baker, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM, Fritz Leonhardt prize, engineering, architecture

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Apr 30, 1992
All the Vermeers in New York
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Jon Jost, Art, Money, Loneliness, Manhattan, Vermeers, Metropolitan Museum, Music Box

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